Ali explained that the support for Wikileaks from Ecuador and other Latin American countries is due to the Bolivarian revolution -- a mass movement of the
oppressed majority -- that is sweeping the continent. He pointed out this
started in Venezuela,
when the poor rose up and said "no" to the IMF. It then spread to Bolivia
and Ecuador and beyond. The Bolivarian
movement has won elections and defeated coups. Ali notes that these movements are moving in the
opposite direction to the West, challenging corporate interests,
reversing privatisation. This is why it is Ecuador that
has come to Assange's aid.